ALTAIR AD 11

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Altair Class Destroyer Tender
Keel Laid December 18 1918
Launched May 10 1919 as EDISTO
Assigned to U.S. Navy June 1919 as ID No. 4156
Transferred to U.S. Navy from USSB October 29 1921
Renamed November 2 1921


1. USS ALTAIR AD-11
   Commissioned December 6 1921 - Decommissioned June 21 1946
   
   Struck from Naval Register July 21 1946
   Sold March 9 1948 for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (1927-44)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

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Postmark Type / Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Image

 

Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

1938-03-21

Cachet incorrectly designates ALTAIR as "AD-9", corrected on reverse
Russell A. Court

 

Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

1940-03-14

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Locy Type 3bps "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

1927-02-14

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Locy Type 3s "MOTHERS DAY / SAN DIEGO CAL" USCS Catalog Illustration A-74a

1934-05-13

Mother's Day
F. R. Rice

 

Locy Type 3s "SAN DIEGO / CALIF." USCS Catalog Illustration A-74a

1935-04-10

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

Locy Type 3z (TTT)

1941-11-17

Pre-Wartime Censored (WWII) use

 

Locy Type 3z (BTT)

1944-03-27

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Locy Type 6ep(2)

1940-11-24

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Locy Type 7dr

1937-12-06

16th Anniversary
Frederick Horton

 

Locy Type 7dz

1943-02-19

Censored Wartime (WWII) use

 

Locy Type 8

1929-02-19

Official Business

 

Locy Type 9

1940-06-07

Facing Slip

 

Locy Type 9efw

1938-05-02

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Locy Type 9x

1938-05-02

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Other Information

Awards, Citations, and Campaign Ribbons...
American Defense Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Named for a first magnitude star in the constellation Aquila, in the northern Milky Way.

 

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